The Holocaust Remembrance Day is broadly observed on January 27, although some countries hold additional commemorations throughout the year. In Israel, we remember the victims of the Holocaust in the Spring, on the 27th of Nisan, a day called Yom...
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Antisemitism is the world’s “oldest hatred.” For as long as the Jewish people have existed, their history has been punctuated by antisemitism.
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Do we believe that all Israel will be saved? For most of Church history, a large part of the Church believed that we were moving away from Israel and God’s plan for the Jewish people—that all Israel will be saved....
God’s Plan for Israel God’s plans for the earth and humanity are in motion. His purposes are clear and never coincidental. But to understand God’s heart for mankind, we must acknowledge the unique role God gave to His people Israel. ...
Should we as Christians care about Israel? If God cares about something, or someone, Christians should too. This would be a logical conclusion, right? Therefore, if Christians care about God, they should care about Israel, too. Is this a logical conclusion...
Religion and Race On January 14, 1963, great leaders of two different worlds met at a conference on “Religion and Race” organized by the National Conference of Christians and Jews (NCCJ) in Chicago. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a faithful...
"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless." These are famous words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran Pastor who was killed by the Nazis for resisting the regime. However, he was not the...
Reflection on Antisemitism from Paul Wilbur The hate for the Jewish people seems to be spreading like wildfire. Many wonder, have we learned nothing from history? We are in the 21st century, in the modern enlightened era. The Dark Ages...
All racism is evil, but there is something different and more insidious about antisemitism. Hatred of the Jewish people has a long and abhorrent history with demonic roots. Edward H. Flannery writes, “Antisemitism is the longest and deepest hatred of...
How to Talk about Israel In today’s world, Israel is a controversial topic, even in relation to the Bible. It is sometimes hard to keep our conversations free of politics but filled with faith. We believe God when He said...
The United Nations (UN) and Israel No matter how you feel about the United Nations, it has a special power. The UN is the one place on Earth where nations get together and attempt to speak with one voice. That's why their...
Typical Replacement Theology Teachings Replacement theology isn’t new. We can trace it as far back as the 3rd century. How did it come into the Church and come to dominate so much of it? A widely distributed Christian magazine published...
The long history of antisemitism in the Church has affected where the Jewish people are today. If antisemitism is the hatred of Jews, how could it exist in the Church at all? Growing up in a Jewish home, I was...